The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

Leaving intact the nation’s “most aggressively broad” statute criminalizing certain speech and conduct directed toward school employees, the Masters case involved Johnathan Masters, an education graduate student who distributed surveys to secondary school students as part of his research.

Statute 128

Statute Education Misdemeanor Court 128

JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The statement could effectively knock out the misdemeanor gun possession count — the one count that could still be in play for the jury after the prosecution’s case on the more serious offense appeared to collapse in court. I have a legal education.” It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute.

Statute 58

Statute Misdemeanor Criminal Law Felony 58

The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2021

Janet Mills has just one day to approve the bill, which decriminalizes offenses committed by people sold into the sex trade and instead provides them with social services and career and education opportunities. Proponents of this “equality” approach also want pimps and traffickers to face stricter punishments.

Misdemeanor 98

Misdemeanor Felony Immigration Statute 98

At the Lectern

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The First District, Division One, published opinion concluded the defendant could not be relieved from a mandatory lifetime sex offender registration requirement despite his felony conviction for attempting to distribute harmful material to a minor having been reduced to a misdemeanor. Justice Groban wrote, “I. Lockton Companies v.

Misdemeanor 45

Misdemeanor Court Entertainment Felony 45

The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Turns out the payments of hush money to at least two women—misdemeanor offenses—were not really what these indictments were all about. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies. The unsealed indictment of The People of the State of New York against Donald J.

Felony 124

Felony Misdemeanor Legal Legal 124

The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It was a great way for a young person to get an education. One of the things I’m very proud of is the work that we did [at John Jay College] through the Misdemeanor Justice Project. BERMAN: I first met you in the early 1990s, when you were at the NYPD. I thought it was politically astute. We need to expand the menu of options.

Government 144

Government Court Laws Legal 144

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute.

Court 42

Court Statute Government Litigation 42